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Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took more than $11,000 in campaign donations from the CEO of a Tampa refrigerant company backed by China, according to a report.According to a report in the Miami Herald, the donation was “just the latest in years” of financial support that the company, iGas USA, has given DeSantis. The report said that DeSantis even held a rally at the company’s Tampa complex.The report said:The rally and contributions are part of a recent wave of political giving by iGas and entities associated with its CEO, Xianbin (Ben) Meng. All told, the companies and employees...

Former President Trump leads President Biden in Florida, including among “non-binary” voters, the latest FAU/Mainstream Research poll found.The survey, taken October 27 to November 11, among 946 Florida adults registered to vote, asked all voters, “If the election for President were held today, and the candidates were Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which candidate would you support?”Overall, 49 percent said they would support Trump, and Biden came ten points behind with 39 percent support. Ten percent said “other,” and two percent remain undecided.📊 2024 Florida GE: FAU Poll(R) Trump 49% (+10)(D) Biden 39%—(R) DeSantis 47% (+8)(D) Biden 39%—Job ApprovalGov. DeSantis:...

Photo: AlamyWhile President Donald Trump delivered remarks to supporters inside Stevens High School in Claremont, New Hampshire, on Saturday, footage from outside of the event posted to social media showed huge overflow crowds lining the streets.Trump’s Senior Advisor Dan Scavino shared a video footage to X (formerly known as Twitter) giving supporters a glimpse of the overwhelmingly large overflow crowd extending throughout the streets surrounding the venue.11/11/23—Outside overflow crowd in Claremont, New Hampshire… pic.twitter.com/rIB3sUI5aT— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) November 11, 2023Scavino posted more footage from inside the venue, which showed supporters packed shoulder-to-shoulder among two different levels of the building.The...

During an interview with NBC News on Monday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who has endorsed DeSantis for president, said that rival 2024 GOP candidate former President Donald Trump attacked governors for trying to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.After DeSantis mentioned the criticism he got for his handling of the COVID pandemic and stated that he did what he thought was right regardless of the criticism, Reynolds said, [relevant remarks begin around 11:00] “Exactly. That is exactly what we needed to do. COVID Kim, I think, was my nickname. I...

Ron DeSantis booster Dave Rubin has denounced Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake as an “election denier” in the latest example of the Florida Governor’s camp weaponizing leftist smears against America First conservatives.Lake, who shared Donald Trump’s concerns about the conduct of the 2020 election, became one of the election integrity movement’s leading lights after her own run for Governor of Arizona, successfully exposing major flaws in mail-in ballot signature verification in the Grand Canyon State.By dismissing her as an “election denier” Rubin chose to play into the leftist narrative that conservatives with concerns about mail-in ballots, voting machines, and other...

Climate change enthusiasts supported DeSantis' purchase which he claims will help fix Florida's 'air quality'Florida’s Republican Governor recently appeased climate change activists and Green New Deal supporters by spending nearly $70 million dollars on electric transportation.Governor Ron DeSantis ordered the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to put aside $68 million for 227 electric buses. That’s nearly $300,000 per bus.DeSantis called the measure a way to lower the state’s emissions which will help Florida’s air quality.“This funding will help lower emissions while also bringing our transit bus fleets to more modern standards. This is a win-win for air quality and...

This is so transparently silly and yet simultaneously obvious in motive.Both Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis are the approved corporate candidates for 2024. CTH pointed out this effort a year ago and all of the datapoints since then have perfectly aligned to the simple truth of the thing. Either DeSantis or Newsom is acceptable to the Sea Island crew, and guess where the debate will take place. Yep, Georgia. lolThe intelligence glow-worm known as Sean Hannity, who will have to quickly learn the shut-up skills needed to be a debate moderator, is the chosen performance artist for the nonsense. Hannity...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) lack of traction in the Republican primary is undermining his support and sway in Florida politics as his White House bid is widely anticipated to “end in failure,” according to a report.Politico reported on DeSantis’s influence problem in the Sunshine State on Friday, citing interviews with dozens involved in the state’s politics: Interviews with nearly two dozen lobbyists, political consultants and lawmakers revealed that DeSantis’ struggles as a presidential candidate have already eroded his influence in Florida. There is a widespread expectation that his candidacy will end in failure. His standing at home may depend on...

The Bush family cartel and their cabal of RINO operatives and donors in Texas are pulling out the big guns to support Ron DeSantis's 2024 opposition Presidential campaign against Donald Trump. Ron DeSantis is holding a fundraiser in Houston, Texas on September 20th at the home of Dr. Riva Collins and Ira Mitzner. The fundraiser for Ron DeSantis’s Presidential campaign is being held in the same vicinity of a fundraiser for RINO Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, who recently led the charge to impeach pro-Trump Texas Attorney General Paxton over false accusations of corruption and bribery. Many of...

Meghan McCain believes that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would have much higher polling numbers if other GOP presidential candidates would drop out of the race, thereby leaving it between him and former President Donald Trump.McCain, the daughter of former Arizona Sen. John McCain and a former co-host of “The View,” made her proposal in a Sunday Op-Ed for the U.K.’s Daily Mail.As she explained, polling data shows Trump with a significant lead over his closest challenger. The RealClearPolitics polling average puts the former president at 46.0 percent compared with 15.8 percent for DeSantis.“It’s make or break time, America,” McCain wrote....

A baseline is important to frame the accurate context:♦ Our government is controlled by corporations and financial interests who operate on an independent agenda, not in our interest. ♦ The RNC and DNC are private clubs inside the U.S. political system, who construct the illusion of choice as directed by their benefactors (donors). The benefactors/donors in both instances are the same entities.This reality forms the core of the Uniparty agenda that we see surface every day in government policy that runs counter to the interests of U.S citizens and voters. The two wings of the UniParty vulture are the RNC...

PLEASE Do not miss the anniversary timing. NOTHING is accidental. EVERYTHING is connected. Today is the anniversary of the August 8th FBI raid in Mar-a-Lago; the event that was preplanned to kick off the 2024 DC national removal effort, which was timed with the DeSantis national launch. The remainder of this year’s GOPe forecast is cloudy with a chance of meatballs.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to ignore his stewardship of the office he was entrusted to hold, as he fires his campaign manager and pulls his Florida chief of staff into the role.Despite donor assurances just a week ago, campaign...

Ed Rollins, responsible for the early adopter ‘Ready for Ron PAC,’ has abandoned the Governor of Florida’s collapsing presidential campaign, admitting that DeSantis has been a ‘flawed candidate’ unable to focus on anything else other than the culture war in an interview with the left-wing magazine, Rolling Stone.Rollins admitted his frustration with DeSantis’s candidacy, and explained the Florida Governor only has himself to blame: “I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people.”“Every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly...

Before getting to the details of the latest Florida Polling, I want to draw attention to the hands controlling the strings on the DeSantis puppet.By now, readers here are very familiar with the Sea Island group, the billionaires, multinational Wall Street entities and DC Republicans who first assembled in Sea Island, Georgia, at the 2016 conference for how to eliminate Trump. That same group has never changed their intention and is the same group behind the 2023 push to use DeSantis as the fake $100 bill on a fishing string being dragged through the MAGAhood.In the article about the failing...

It’s going to get a lot more huggy in the brand image of Team DeSantis 2.0According to campaign officials, and those inside the operations, DeSantis will stop talking about Florida, tone down the wokeism and confrontation with the alphabet people, drop the expensive platform speeches and focus on small group meetings to help the candidate learn how to like people more. In essence, stop being the DeSantis campaign.Yup, awful huggy. Gee, who could have seen this coming?(Via NBC) – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign is planning a reboot, top campaign officials said, with a significant shift on...

Following Ron DeSantis’ use of phony Democrat talking points to attack President Trump over January 6th, Laura Loomer reshared a video of Geri Perna saying that DeSantis has abandoned J6 defendants from his own state of Florida. Geri’s nephew Matthew Perna tragically committed suicide after Biden’s DOJ harassment of him. Perna was charged with nonviolent J6 trespassing offenses.In the video shared on Twitter by Laura Loomer, Geri Perna described DeSantis’ abandonment of those arrested on January 6th, saying, “Ron DeSantis has nothing to do with any of the people from Florida, and there were more people from Florida than any...

Ron DeSantis has long embraced globalist anti-farm policies.45th President Donald J. Trump exposed Ron DeSantis’s anti-farm policies he has taken as Governor, Congressman, and presidential candidate. The Council Bluffs, Iowa crowd booed DeSantis’ name passionately as Trump read every globalist anti-farm policy DeSantis has endorsed.The loudest boos came when Trump pointed out that DeSantis has embraced the globalist trade policies of Paul Ryan. The Ryan-DeSantis non-tariff trade policy would lead to foreign farms using cheap labor and flooding the American market, forcing American farms to close. The World Economic Forum has encouraged politicians to enact policies that would destroy farms....

The majority of the Florida GOP congressional delegation has backed former President Donald Trump, in a significant blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.The backing of 11 Republican lawmakers out of 20 in DeSantis’s own back yard has raised questions about his viability as a competitor to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.While DeSantis has not officially declared he is running, he is widely expected to announce a bid for the presidency after Florida’s legislative session wraps up in May. In the meantime, he has stepped up his travel around the country, and is set to go on an international trip...

Representative Lance Gooden (R-TX) released a statement of endorsement right after meeting with Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is running a shadow campaign against Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. The Texan’s endorsement, however, was not that of Ron DeSantis but the frontrunner rival of the Florida executive, Mr. Trump. Mr. Gooden mentioned his meeting with the governor during his statement on Twitter where he said “Today, after careful consideration and a positive meeting with Governor DeSantis, I have decided to endorse President @realDonaldTrump for 2024. I look forward to fighting alongside him to reclaim our country from the...

Donors are reportedly having second thoughts about backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in a potential 2024 presidential bid and are frustrated with the way he has handled a variety of issues over the last several months — from the flooding in Fort Lauderdale to abortion– as well as the way he has refused to go full throttle against the man who would be his top rival should he jump in the presidential race: former President Donald Trump.Uneasiness has been bubbling as DeSantis continues to tap dance around direct questions regarding a 2024 presidential bid.“Wouldn’t you like to know?” DeSantis...